After carving Jack o Lantern – what do you do with your pumpkin seeds? Please don’t tell me they grace the bins as it has never occurred to you about roasting the seeds at home.

Never mind. Now that you are here, trust me you will roast the seeds henceforth.

HOW TO ROAST PUMPKIN SEEDS?

Well as such there is no recipe to this. There are basically simple steps to follow to roast pumpkin seeds.

The very first step is to halve the pumpkins. If you are cutting the squash, its the same thingy too. Peeling the skin is not essential for roasting the seeds 😉

Second step is to scoop the seeds and stringy bits from the pumpkin using a spoon. If its too hard to remove them, use a knife.

Third step is to run the colander through running cold tap water and clean the seeds. Pat them dry onto the tissue paper.

Hurray, so far we are done with the laborious job so far. Now comes the fun part for roasting seeds.
Season the pumpkin seeds with oil and salt. Bake in the oven for about 30 minutes or until crisp and brown at 170 C. They key step is to check the oven at every 10 minutes and rotate the seeds if possible to avoid burning. Store them in an air tight container..